On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 20:22, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, it's really simple digits based date-time like "2012-09-22 16:34:22". > > getdate(3) is maybe another choice for future versions, for 2.35.1 is > parse_timestamp() good enough to avoid GPLv3. This will most likely end up causing an ABI breakage so I think the best option is the least complicated time format, that is what parse_timestamp() provides. In case arbitrary format really must be supported then I think the best option is to parse_timestamp() and if that fails call getdate() as well. That said I have no idea how to write instructions to manual page about DATEMSK environment variable and strptime() formats without causing new-to-linux users to wonder why simple things must be so hard. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
